Hubbard actually told people what he was going to do to them - although in a disguised manner.
In 1963, Hubbard defined "Implant" as an "electronic means of overwhelming with a significance." He then proceeded to use electro-meters ("Your e-meter will tell you," etc.) and pervasive hype ("Your next endless agonized trillions of years," etc) to psychologically overwhelm with the significance of the
vital to survival secret - very specifically worded - levels such as OT 2 and OT 3.
Hubbard became the Implanter. It was no longer subtle.
(And, yes, some people
want to be told the contents of their own minds and their own spaces, and if they have an e-meter to play with while doing so - and can go wheee! - and perhaps even do some actual auditing here and there, to mix things up nicely - and then write a Success Story, then they're happy. So? And, by the way, the reference to 'Whee!' is not meant as a put down, but as a depiction of what happens, and it's built in to the Implantology experience.)
OT 2 contains general items, and also very specific details, dates and durations, and these specific details, dates and durations are what usually trap the person in the significance of OT2, just as is done with the trapping of the person in the significance of OT3. It's someone else's (and I don't mean BTs) significance that becomes their significance.
I wish people had an opportunity to (conveniently) review the actual contents of OT2 - not a watered down re-write - and then perhaps this aspect could be better appreciated.
The original advertised End Result of these levels was that the person was - essentially - one step away from OT. And by OT was meant, "A thetan himself without a body is capable of performing all the functions he assigns to the body," that is the "communication with and control of the MEST universe."
The proponents of these Implantology levels can insist that these "work," in which case that would mean that they - as "thetans" - have so little "thetan horsepower" that they can't do anything even vaguely resembling what was promised. All they can do is hope that people forget that that promise - of OT Powers - was what coaxed most people into being willing to open up there minds, to this mind-trick, in the first place. Then, over time, it became "the thing to do." And reason for doing OT2 or OT3 became to
have done OT2 or OT3.
Whatever positive result might be obtained from such levels can be obtained other ways, without the mental-glue effect, without "overwhelming with a significance."
Most anything in Scientology has a trap aspect, or side, and that trap-side is not supposed to be noticed, even though it's there. It's an extension of the "LRH Intention" that Scientology not be fully known and not be fully understood. Probably the only "LRH Intention," senior to that, is that Scientology, as a personality cult, "Survive!" for a very long time.
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